The Israeli occupation army acknowledged, through its spokesman Daniel Hagari, that the killing of the head of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip was a coincidence.
During a press conference held yesterday evening, Thursday, Hagari said that the operation took place on Wednesday in Tal al-Sultan in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
He added, referring to Al-Sinwar, “We did not know that he was there. At first we identified him as an armed man inside one of the buildings, and he was seen, masked, throwing a wooden plank towards the drone seconds before he was killed.”
Hagari acknowledged that the Israeli army and the Shin Bet Security Service “worked for several months to obtain intelligence information in order to eliminate Sinwar.”
After combing
Earlier yesterday, Thursday, the Israeli occupation army said in a statement that a force belonging to the 828th Brigade “spotted and killed 3 Hamas members during a clash in the southern Gaza Strip, and after completing the DNA examination process, it can be confirmed that Al-Sinwar was killed.”
The army pointed out that Sinwar was killed the day before yesterday, Wednesday, and his body was not discovered until after combing the area yesterday, Thursday.
The Hamas movement did not confirm or deny what the Israeli army announced regarding the killing of Sinwar, knowing that the operation comes a little more than two months after he was chosen as leader of the political bureau of the Hamas movement, succeeding Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on July 31, in an attack for which he was responsible. On Tel Aviv, although the latter did not acknowledge this.
According to Anatolia Agency, Israel considers Sinwar the architect of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, which was carried out by Palestinian factions in Gaza, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, against Israeli settlements and military bases adjacent to the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, causing major human and military losses to Tel Aviv. It negatively affected the reputation of its security and intelligence services at the international level.